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Frontiers of Legal Theory

From the December 2001 Print Edition

Reviewed by Robert T. Miller Judge Richard A. Posner is for many the most brilliant jurist of our times. A judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, a former chief judge of that court, and a senior lecturer in law at the University of Chicago, Posner is best known as a . . . . Continue Reading »

By Nature Equal

From the April 2001 Print Edition

By Nature Equal is a bold and original book. Both authors are law professors”Coons at Boalt Hall at Berkeley, Brennan at Arizona State University”but their book has little to do with the law. Instead it ranges widely over moral philosophy, the history of ideas, and Christian theology, . . . . Continue Reading »

Sovereign Virtue

From the February 2001 Print Edition

Ronald Dworkin, the Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at New York University and the Quain Professor of Jurisprudence at University College in London, is an internationally renowned legal theorist and one of the relatively few academics to achieve the coveted status of public intellectual. His . . . . Continue Reading »